Hubble Uses Galactic Lens to Look Further
Image credit: Hubble The Hubble Space Telescope has used a natural 2-million-light-year wide "zoom lens" to look further into space…
Gullies on Mars Not Formed by Water?
Gullies on Mars were discovered in 2001 that seemed to show evidence that liquid water had been on the surface…
Ariane Inquiry Board Submits its Findings
Image credit: Arianespace According to a commission of inquiry, the failure of the new Ariane 5-ESCA rocket appears to have…
Furthest Extrasolar Planet Discovered
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced today that they have discovered a Jupiter-class planet orbiting a star 5,000…
Starving Black Hole at the Centre of our Galaxy
Image credit: Chandra Using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, astronomers have created one of the most vivid images of Sagittarius A,…
Distant and Fast Moving Object Discovered
Image credit: NASA A team of astronomers from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena presented images today of a…
Ring of Stars Found Around our Milky Way
Image credit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Astronomers announced today that they have discovered a giant ring of stars circling the Milky…
Titan II Lofts Coriolis Satellite
Image credit: USAF After five scrubbed launch attempts, a Titan II rocket finally roared up from Vandenberg Air Force Base…
Finding Salt on Io
Image credit: NASA A team of French and American astronomers have discovered the presence of salt (NaCl) in Io's atmosphere.…
Shenzhou 4 Lands
China's fourth unmanned space capsule, Shenzhou IV, returned to Earth on Sunday landing on the central grasslands of Inner Mongolia.…